Beitske Visser

Beitske Visser (born 10 March 1995) is a racing driver from the Netherlands and a BMW Motorsport junior.

Beitske Visser
Visser in 2019
Nationality	Dutch
Born	10 March 1995 Dronten, Netherlands
W Series career
Debut season	2019
Current team	Hitech Grand Prix
Car number	95
Starts	6
Wins	1
Poles	0
Fastest laps	2
Best finish	2nd in 2019
Previous series
2014-16 2014-15 2012–13	Formula V8 3.5 Series GP3 Series ADAC Formel Masters

She has raced in kart, single-seater and GT series.

Career

Visser competing in Formula Renault 3.5 in 2014.

Visser testing an electric open-wheeler, June 2017

Visser at the 2019 W Series Brands Hatch round.

Karting

Born in Dronten, Visser began karting in 2007 and raced in various European and International championships, working her way up from the junior ranks to progress through to the KZ1 category by 2011, when she finished in tenth position in the CIK-FIA European KZ1 Championship.[1][2]

First car race

On 6 August, 2011, Visser made her car racing debut in the Supercar Challenge at Assen Circuit, in the GT class, driving a Praga R4S. Despite a 25-second penalty, she passed Roger Grouwels towards the end of the race she claimed her first car racing win in her race debut.[3]

Open-wheel racing

ADAC Formel Masters

2012 saw her début in the ADAC Formel Masters championship with Lotus, also known as Motopark Academy.[4] Visser finished eighth in the championship with wins at Zandvoort and EuroSpeedway Lausitz, and another ten point-scoring finishes.[5]

She joined the Red Bull Junior Team racing academy at the start of the 2013 season but was dropped from the program at the end of the season.[6]

She remained in the series with the team for the 2013 season; she won one race during the season, at the Sachsenring, and finished eighth again, in the final championship standings.[7]

GP3 Series

In 2014, Visser competed in the opening round of the GP3 Series with Hilmer Motorsport.[8] She also competed in the Spa-Francorchamps round of the 2015 season with Trident.

Formula Renault 3.5 Series

As well as the GP3 Series, Visser graduated to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series in 2014, joining AVF.[9] She scored her first point during Race 1 at Spa-Francorchamps.[10] She completed two seasons with Adrian Valles' team, before switching to Teo Martín Motorsport in 2016. She scored a best result of 5th (Jerez 2016) and a best finish of 13th in the championship (2016).

Hiatus

Visser left Formula V8 at the end of 2016, and took up a development role with a student team from Eindhoven University of Technology (Automotive Technology InMotion), who were developing an electric open-wheeler. In June 2017, the team broke the EV lap record at Zandvoort, going 16 seconds faster than the previous best.[11]

Formula E

Visser became, alongside Bruno Spengler, one of the test and reserve drivers for Andretti Autosport ahead of the 2018–19 Formula E season.[12]

W Series

Visser was accepted into the qualifying stages of the 2019 W Series to be held at the Wachauring in January 2019, and subsequently qualified as one of the 18 regular drivers.[13][14] She finished second in the championship to Jamie Chadwick with four podiums including a win at Zolder.

The Dutchwoman was set to contest the 2020 championship before it was cancelled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[15] A 10-event eSports series was held on iRacing in its place, with Visser taking the championship with a round remaining.[16]

Endurance racing

GT4

In mid-2017, she was admitted into the BMW Junior Driver programme, where she was entered into the 2017 GT4 European Series Southern Cup alongside German driver Dennis Marschall.[17] The pairing won the penultimate round of the campaign in Barcelona. She and Marschall will continue in the class in 2018.

LMP2

Visser made her prototype début in the 2020 European Le Mans Series for Signature Team, replacing regular driver Katherine Legge after she was injured testing the teams' Alpine A470 at Circuit Paul Ricard.[18] She finished 6th in the 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps alongside Tatiana Calderón and André Negrão, and 11th in the Le Castellet 240 partnering Sophia Flörsch.[19]

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2011	Supercar Challenge - GT	Race 4 Slovakia	2	1	0	1	1	0	NC†
2012	ADAC Formel Masters	Lotus	17	2	1	0	2	109	8th
2013	ADAC Formel Masters	Lotus	24	1	0	0	2	117	8th
2014	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	AVF	17	0	0	0	0	11	21st
	GP3 Series	Hilmer Motorsport	2	0	0	0	0	0	27th
2015	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	AVF	17	0	0	0	0	3	23rd
	GP3 Series	Trident	2	0	0	0	0	0	28th
2016	Formula V8 3.5 Series	Teo Martín Motorsport	18	0	0	0	0	50	13th
2017	GT4 European Series Southern Cup	MOMO-Megatron Team Partrax	2	1	0	0	1	0	NC†
2018	GT4 European Series	RN Vision STS	12	2	0	0	3	100	6th
	French GT4 Cup - Pro Am	3Y Technology	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
2019	W Series	Hitech Grand Prix	6	1	0	2	4	100	2nd
	International GT Open	Senkyr Motorsport	6	0	0	0	1	33	11th
2020	European Le Mans Series	Richard Mille Racing Team	4	0	0	0	0	10	19th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	9th
2021	W Series	Hitech Grand Prix

^† As Visser was a guest driver, she was ineligible to score points.

Complete Formula V8 3.5 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Pos	Points
2014	AVF	MNZ 1 Ret	MNZ 2 17	ALC 1 18	ALC 2 16	MON 1 17	SPA 1 10	SPA 2 14	MSC 1 13	MSC 2 13	NÜR 1 19	NÜR 2 Ret	HUN 1 17	HUN 2 12	LEC 1 15	LEC 2 11	JER 1 5	JER 2 12		21st	11
2015	AVF	ALC 1 DNS	ALC 2 19	MON 1 13	SPA 1 DNS	SPA 2 Ret	HUN 1 9	HUN 2 15	RBR 1 12	RBR 2 10	SIL 1 Ret	SIL 2 13	NÜR 1 16	NÜR 2 15	BUG 1 14	BUG 2 13	JER 1 12	JER 2 Ret		23rd	3
2016	Teo Martín Motorsport	ALC 1 10	ALC 2 12	HUN 1 7	HUN 2 DNS	SPA 1 7	SPA 2 9†	LEC 1 9	LEC 2 10	SIL 1 9	SIL 2 10	RBR 1 8	RBR 2 9	MNZ 1 14	MNZ 2 9	JER 1 7	JER 2 5	CAT 1 10	CAT 2 8	13th	50

^† Driver did not finish, but was classified as she completed over 90% of the race distance.

Complete GP3 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Pos	Points
2014	Hilmer Motorsport	CAT FEA 19	CAT SPR 15	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HOC FEA	HOC SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	SOC FEA	SOC SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR	27th	0
2015	Trident	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA Ret	SPA SPR 15	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	SOC FEA	SOC SPR	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR	28th	0

Complete W Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	1	2	3	4	5	6	DC	Points
2019	HOC 4	ZOL 1	MIS 2	NRM 2	ASS 4	BRH 3	2nd	100

Complete European Le Mans Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	Rank	Points
2020	Richard Mille Racing Team	LMP2	Alpine A470	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	LEC	SPA 6	LEC 11	MNZ 10	ALG 11	19th	10

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2020	Richard Mille Racing Team	Sophia Flörsch Tatiana Calderón	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	364	13th	9th

References

1. "Presentation". beitskevisser.com/. Archived from the original on 28 March 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
2. "CIK-FIA European KZ1 Championship 2011". Driver Database. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
3. "16 YEAR-OLD BEITSKE VISSER MAKES A SENSATIONAL VICTORY DEBUT AT THE DUTCH SUPERCAR CHALLENGE". pragaglobal.com. 8 August 2011. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
4. "La Visser con Motopark" [Visser for Motopark]. ItaliaRacing.net (in Italian). Inpagina. 16 February 2012. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
5. "ADAC Formel Masters 2012". driverdb.com. Driver Database. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
6. "Red Bull sign first-ever female driver Beitse Visser to junior team". BBC.co.uk/sport. BBC. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
7. "ADAC Formel Masters 2013". driverdb.com. Driver Database. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
8. Allen, Peter (8 May 2014). "Mason and Visser secure Hilmer seats for GP3 opener". Paddock Scout. Archived from the original on 2 March 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
9. "Visser announces FR3.5 season with AVF". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. 26 March 2014. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
10. "Spa FR3.5: Red Bull protege Carlos Sainz Jr dominates race one". Autosport. Haymarket. 31 May 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
11. Biesbrouck, Tim (4 June 2017). "Dutch student team betters lap record Circuit Zandvoort - ElectricAutosport.com". ElectricAutosport.com. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
12. "VISSER, SPENGLER NAMED BMW ANDRETTI 2018/19 FORMULA E RESERVE". FormulaRapida.net. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
13. "W Series unveils initial 55-driver list". Motorsport.com. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
14. "Beitske Visser - W Series". W Series. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
15. "W Series cancels 2020 season but reveals plans for F1 support races in 2021 | Formula 1®".
16. "Beitske Visser: eSports Victor". W Series. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
17. "Former Red Bull junior Visser joins BMW junior programme". Motorsport.com. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
18. "W Series star Beitske Visser gets LMP2 call-up". Formula Scout. 7 August 2020.
19. "Floersch makes remarkable ELMS debut, as Iron Dames take P3 in GTE". RACERS. BEHIND THE HELMET. 31 August 2020.

External links

• Beitske Visser career summary at DriverDB.com